English Literature MCQ

1. "To be, or not to be, that is the question" ----Where do you find this quotation?

a) Macbeth

b) Hamlet

c) As You like It

d) Othello

Answer: B

2. We find Subjective Elements in?

a) Keats

b) Shelley

c) Wordsworth

d) All

Answer: D

3. "Lyrical Ballad" was published in?

a) 1789

b) 1798

c) 1800

d) 1785

Answer: A

4. "If they be two, they are two so A stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul,the fixed foot,makes
no show To move, but doth,if th' other do"--------Example of?

a) Conceit

b) Ode

c) Allusion
d) Simile

Answer: A

5. Who is Neo-Classic?

a) Tennyson

b) Alexander Pope

c) Robert Browning

d) a and c

Answer: B

6. Which one is Golden Age in English Literature?

a) Elezabethan

b) Classic

c) Modern

d) Jacobean

Answer: A

7. First English Tragedy?

a) Oedipus

b) Gorboduc

c) Aeschylus

d) None of these

Answer: B

8. Who is called "The bard of Avon"?

a) Christopher Marlowe

b) William Shakespeare
c) John Milton

d) Homer

Answer: B

9. "The pilgrim's Progress" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) John Bunyan

c) John Dryden

d) John Locke

Answer: B

10. "We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain;"-----by?

a) John keats

b) Wordsworth

c) Shelley

d) Milton

Answer: B

11. "The Alchemist" ----written by?

a) Ben Johnson

b) Samuel Johnson

c) Marlowe

d) None of them

Answer: A

12. Romantic Age starts from?

a) 1789
b) 1880

c) 1889

d) 1750

Answer: A

13. "Our sweetest songs are those that tale of saddest thought "----composed by?

a) Shakespeare

b) Shelley

c) John Keats

d) Wordsworth

Answer: B

14. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare?

a) Christopher Marlowe

b) Lord Tennyson

c) John Milton

d) All of them

Answer: A

15. The famous poem "Ulysses" is written by?

a) Homer

b) Tennyson

c) Popem

d) Alex Haley

Answer: B

16. "A poison Tree" is written by?

b) Robert Herrick

c) William Wordsworth

d) William Blake

Answer: D

17. Who is English Poet?

a) Robert Frost

b) Emily Dickinson

c) John Keats

d) Toni Morrison

Answer: C

18. "Pride and Prejudice" is written by?

a) Charles Lamb

b) Virginia Woolf

c) Emily Bronte

d) Jane Austen

Answer: D

19. "Don Juan" is a/an?

a) Poem

b) epic

c) Ode

d) novel

Answer: B
20. Pioneer of Romantic Period?

a) William Wordsworth

b) S.T. Coleridge

c) John Keats

d) P.B. Shelley

Answer: A

21. "Prometheus Unbound" is written by?

a) John Keats

b) Percy Bysshe Shelley

c) William Wordsworth

d) None of them

Answer: B

22. Feature of Romantic Period?

a) Subjectivity

b) Naturalism

c) Use of common language

d) all of these

Answer: D

23. Romantic Period starts from?

a) 1989

b) 1798

c) 1998

d) None of these
Answer: B

24. "Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any
drop to drink."------from which poem?

a) Intimation of Immortality

b) Tintern Abbey

c) Don Juan

d) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Answer: D

25. "Beauty is truth, True Beauty "-----cited from?

a) Keats

b) Shelley

c) Jane Austine

d) Charles Lamb

Answer: A

26. Who believes in Pantheism?

a) Lord Byron

b) William Wordsworth

c) John Keats

d) All of them

Answer: B

27. "If winter come can spring be far behind "------Quoted from?

a) Shelley

b) Wordsworth

c) Keats
d) Coleridge

Answer: A

28. "Preface to Lyrical Ballad" is written by?

a) S.T. Coleridge

b) William Wordsworth

c) Both of them

d) None of them

Answer: B

29. "Ten Thousands saw I at a glance"----example of?

a) Conceit

b) Hyperbole

c) Simile

d) Metaphor

Answer: B

30. Jane Austen was a/an?

a) Poet

b) Dramatist

c) Novelist

d) Essayist

Answer: C

31. "He smiles , he laughs and he roars"---this quotation is an example of?

a) Conceit

b) Allusion
c) Climax

d) Satire

Answer: C

32. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That starts and frets his hour upon the stage and
then is heard no more"------quoted from?

a) King Lear

b) Macbeth

c) Dr. Faustus

d) Othello

Answer: B

33. Limeric is one kind of?

a) Song

b) Narrative Poem

c) Satire

d) long poem

Answer: B

34. The most important element of a Tragedy?

a) Plot

b) Character

c) Spectacles

d) Diction

Answer: A

35. "The Jew of Malta" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare
b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: B

36. "The Silent Woman" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: C

37. "The Way of the World" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: D

38. "The Duchess of Mulfi" is written by?

a) William Congreve

b) John Wyclerly

c) Ben Johnson

d) John Webster

Answer: D

39. "The Spanish Tragedy" is composed by?

b) Thomas Kyd

c) William Nashe

d) John Lyly

Answer: B

40. "Romeo and Juliet" is a?

a) Comedy

b) Tragicomedy

c) Tragedy

d) Story

Answer: C

41. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period?

a) Elizabeth 1

b) Charles 2

c) Charles 1

d) Victoria 1

Answer: A

42. Renaissance Period was dominated by?

a) Tragedy

b) Comedy

c) Translation

d) Prose

Answer: A
43. "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self-place; for where we are is hell, And
where hell is, there must we ever be."-----this famous quotation is cited from?

a) Dr. Faustus

b) Paradise Lost

c) Tempest

d) Macbeth

Answer: A

44. Who was often been called The Father of English Tragedy?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) John Wyclerly

d) John Lyly

Answer: B

45. "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it
feeds on."-------Quoted from?

a) Dr. Faustus

b) Macbeth

c) Hamlet

d) Othello

Answer: D

46. "He smiles , he laughs and he roars"---this quotation is an example of?

a) Conceit

b) Allusion

c) Climax
d) Satire

Answer: C

47. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That starts and frets his hour upon the stage and
then is heard no more"------quoted from?

a) King Lear

b) Macbeth

c) Dr. Faustus

d) Othello

Answer: B

48. Limeric is one kind of?

a) Song

b) Narrative Poem

c) Satire

d) long poem

Answer: B

49. The most important element of a Tragedy?

a) Plot

b) Character

c) Spectacles

d) Diction

Answer: A

50. "The Jew of Malta" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe
c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: B

51. "The Silent Woman" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: C

52. "The Way of the World" is written by?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) Ben Johnson

d) William Congreve

Answer: D

53. "The Duchess of Mulfi" is written by?

a) William Congreve

b) John Wyclerly

c) Ben Johnson

d) John Webster

Answer: D

54. "The Spanish Tragedy" is composed by?

a) John Wyclerly
b) Thomas Kyd

c) William Nashe

d) John Lyly

Answer: B

55. "Romeo and Juliet" is a?

a) Comedy

b) Tragicomedy

c) Tragedy

d) Story

Answer: C

56. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period?

a) Elizabeth 1

b) Charles 2

c) Charles 1

d) Victoria 1

Answer: A

57. Renaissance Period was dominated by?

a) Tragedy

b) Comedy

c) Translation

d) Prose

Answer: A

58. "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self-place; for where we are is hell, And
where hell is, there must we ever be."-----this famous quotation is cited from?
a) Dr. Faustus

b) Paradise Lost

c) Tempest

d) Macbeth

Answer: A

59. Who was often been called The Father of English Tragedy?

a) William Shakespeare

b) Christopher Marlowe

c) John Wyclerly

d) John Lyly

Answer: B

60. "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it
feeds on."-------Quoted from?

a) Dr. Faustus

b) Macbeth

c) Hamlet

d) Othello

Answer: D

61. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"-----quoted from?

a) Macbeth

b) As you like It

c) Tempest

d) Othello

Answer: A
62. "The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"------this
quotation is quoted from?

a) Hamlet

b) As you like It

c) Othello

d) Henry 8

Answer: B

63. Shakespeare was born in?

a) 1616

b) 1564

c) 1566

d) 1604

Answer: B

64. "Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind "-----Example of?

a) Simile

b) Conceit

c) Metaphor

d) Couplet

Answer: D

65. "All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players"------Quoted from?

a) A Midsummer Night's Dream

b) Much Ado About Nothing

c) A Pericles Prince of Tyre

d) None of these.
Answer: D

66. How many plays did Shakespeare compose?

a) 154

b) 38

c) 29

d) 26

Answer: B

67. Early plays of Shakespeare's are?

a) Tragedy

b) Tragicomedy

c) Romantic

d) Comedy

Answer: D

68. "not of an age, but for all time"----was told about Shakespeare by whom?

a) Marlowe

b) Ben Johnson

c) King Henry

d) John Milton

Answer: B

69. "The Merchant of Venice" -----was a?

a) Comedy

b) Tragedy

c) Historical
d) Tragicomedy

Answer: D

70. Which one is a Tragedy?

a) Antony and Cleopatra

b) The Tempest

c) King John

d) Richard 2

Answer: A

71. Which quotation is by Shakespeare?

a) Cowards die many times before their deaths.

b) To err is human; to forgive is divine.

c) "Brevity is the soul of wit"

d) a and c

Answer: D

72. Which one is not by Shakespeare?

a) Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

b) True is it that we have seen betting days.

c) Knowledge is power.

d) None of these.

Answer: C

73. Shakespeare was died?

a) 1592

b) 1616
c) 1638

d) 1632

Answer: B

74. How many Sonnets did Shakespeare compose?

a) 151

b) 148

c) 128

d) 154

Answer: D

75. Character "King Duncan" is found in?

a) Othello

b) Macbeth

c) Julius Caesar

d) Henry 8

Answer: B

76. Which one is 19th century English Literature from above?

a) 1601-1699

b) 1701-1799

c) 1801-1899

d) 1901-1999

Answer: C

77. Who is writer of the poem "Sailing To Byzantium"???

a) James Joyece
b) D. H. Lawrence

c) William Butler Yeats

d) E. M. Forster

Answer: C

78. Who is the Writer of "Return of the Native"?

a) Thomas Hardy

b) John Stuart Mill

c) Emily Bronte

d) Thackeray

Answer: A

79. "Im Memoriam" is written by?

a) Charles Dickens

b) Tennyson

c) Robert Browning

d) Thackeray

Answer: B

80. "A Tale of Two Cities" is written by?

a) Lord Tennyson

b) Thomas Hardy

c) Newman

d) Charles Dickens

Answer: D

81. Representative Poet of Victorian Age?

b) Robert Browning

c) Alfred Tennyson

d) None of them

Answer: C

82. Literature of Victorian Age reflects?

a) Instability

b) Stability

c) Doubtless

d) Immorality

Answer: B

83. Who is the Creator of "Dramatic Monologue"?

a) Robert browning

b) Alfred Tennyson

c) George Eliot

d) Thomas Hardy

Answer: A

84. Victorian Age starts from?

a) 1801

b) 1901

c) 1885

d) 1832

Answer: D
85. "Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation's final law---" -this famous quotation is
taken from?

a) Ulysses

b) In Memoriam

c) Men and Women

d) Vanity Fair

Answer: B

86. "Lord of the flies" is written by?

a) E. M. Forster

b) Robert Frost

c) George Orwell

d) William Golding

Answer: D

87. "Animal Farm" is written by?

a) William Golding

b) George Orwell

c) Virginia Woolf

d) Joseph Conrad

Answer: B

88. "Heart Of Darkness" is written by?

a) Joseph Conrad

b) W. H. Auden

c) D. H. Lawrence

d) T. S. Eliot
Answer: A

89. "Mrs Dalloway" is written by?

a) Joseph Conrad

b) T.S. Eliot

c) Virginia Woolf

d) Dylan Thomas

Answer: C

90. "The Rainbow" is a novel written by?

a) James Joyce

b) D. H. Lawrence

c) W. B. Yeats

d) William Golding

Answer: B

91. "The Waste Land" is a/an?

a) Epic

b) Poem

c) Novel

d) Drama

Answer: B

92. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in?

a) 1913

b) 1923

c) 1937
d) 1919

Answer: B

93. W. B. Yeats was a/an?

a) Irish Poet

b) English Poet

c) Swedish Poet

d) None of them

Answer: A

94. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is composed by?

a) Dylan Thomas

b) T.S. Eliot

c) W. B. Yeats

d) Ezra Pound

Answer: B

95. "She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And
ships upon untamed seas" ----these lines are the starting of?

a) Lullaby

b) The Shield Of Achilles

c) The Waste Land

d) Sailing to Byzantium

Answer: B

96. Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls?

a) G B Shaw

b) Rudyard Kipling
c) Earnest Hemingway

d) Saul Bellow

Answer: C

97. Who is the author of ‘The Jungle Book’?

a) R K Narayan

b) Edin Blyton

c) Rudyard Kipling

d) H G Wells

Answer: C

98. G B Shaw got Nobel Prize in 1925 for the book?

a) Arms and the man

b) The doctor’s dilemma

c) Man of destiny

d) Philanderer

Answer: A

99. Which one is written by G B Shaw?

a) Caesar and Cleopatra

b) Troilus and Creseyda

c) Troilus and Cressida

d) Antony and Cleopatra

Answer: A

100. Ulysses is a____by James Joyce.

a) novel
b) poetry

c) verse

d) play

Answer: A

101. Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold Pinter is from?

a) USA

b) Australia

c) UK

d) Canada

Answer: C

102. Who is the author of ‘Satanic Verses’?

a) Toni Morrison

b) Salman Rushdie

c) James Osborn

d) Saul Bellow

Answer: B

103. Who is the author of ‘Interpretation of Drama’?

a) Saul Bellow

b) Sigmund Freud

c) Samuel Butler

d) Samuel Beckett

Answer: B

104. Who is the author of ‘Endgame’?

b) Samuel Beckett

c) R K Narayan

d) Earnest Hemingway

Answer: B

105. What is 1st decade part of modern age?

a) Edwardian

b) Georgian

c) Pope

d) Augusta

Answer: A

106. Who is Father of modern English literature?

a) G B Shaw

b) Toni Morrison

c) Sigmund Freud

d) H G Wells

Answer: A

107. ‘East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet’ these lines were written by?

a) Rudyard Kipling

b) G B Shaw

c) Toni Morrison

d) Salmon Rushdie

Answer: A
108. ‘There are two tragedies in life one is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is get it.’
these lines were written by?

a) Jean Paul Sartre

b) James Osborn

c) G B Shaw

d) H G Wells

Answer: C

109. Who is the author of ‘The Dark Room’?

a) R K Narayan

b) James Osborn

c) Toni Morrison

d) Saul Bellow

Answer: A

110. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel Prize?

a) Beloved

b) Song of Solomon

c) The Bluest Eye

d) Tar Baby

Answer: A

111. Mirabell, Milllamant, Lady Wishfort are the characters found in-

a) The Portrait of a Lady

b) The way of the World

c) All for Love

d) The Rape of the Lock

112. Which one is not written by Robert Browning?

a) Adonais

b) The Patriot

c) Andrea del Sarto

d) My Last Duchess

Answer: A

113. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' is an example of-

a) Metaphor

b) Epigram

c) Satire

d) Simile

Answer: D

114. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans?

a) Jane Austen

b) Charlotte Bronte

c) George Eliot

d) Joseph Conrad

Answer: C

115. Who was American poet?

a) Robert Frost

b) John Keats

c) John Milton
d) Robert Herrick

Answer: A

116. Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Goddot' is a-

a) Morality play

b) Problem play

c) Miracle play

d) Absurd play

Answer: D

117. 'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven' has been quoted from-

a) Paradise Regained

b) Paradise Lost

c) Aeneid

d) None of these

Answer: B

118. Who was the eminent writer of the Restoration?

a) John Milton

b) John Dryden

c) William Congreve

d) All of them

Answer: D

119. When did T. S. Eliot win noble prize?

a) 1948

b) 1923
c) 1953

d) 1935

Answer: A

120. Who was 'Poet Laureate'?

a) Alfred Tennyson

b) Robert Browning

c) P. B. Shelley

d) none of them

Answer: A

121. 'O Lady! We receive but what we give'-has been quoted from

a) Kubla khan

b) Don Juan

c) Tithonus

d) Dejection: An Ode

Answer: D

122. Which one is written by Arthur Miller?

a) Long Days Journey into Night

b) Death of a Salesman

c) The Bluest Eye

d) The Lottery

Answer: B

123. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-

a) Commonwealth period
b) Jacobean period

c) Caroline period

d) Restoration period

Answer: A

124. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?

a) Song of myself

b) Song of Innocence

c) Song of Experience

d) none of these

Answer: A

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